CRITICS of: People, Leaders, Followers, Behaviors, Speakers, Writers, Published-Texts, Reports-of-Them, etc. - - - MERIT-ATTENTION ONLY to-the-extent-that they themselves have honestly-and-reliably with-integrity show that: 1. They personally have actually witnessed first-hand the: people, leaders, behaviors, speeches, texts, etc - - - and Have-Thought about them carefully in well-informed, unbiased and gracious ways in search of Mutual-Understanding - - - and are responding informed by such efforts - - - in search of Mutual-Understanding in Shalom's Gracious-Ways of LOVE. 2. They have actually offered clear-and-coherent AFFIRMATIONS of Long-Term-SUSTAINABLE: Life-Styyles, Ideals, Principles, Values, Virtues and Grounds-for-Hope. 3. They have made reasoned comparisons of Spectrums of Alternative-Real-Possibilities - - - for Mitigating Conflicts which Have-Generated-Tragic-Alienations - - - thaty are rooted in Simplistic-Idealism - - - that is NOT Long-Term-SUSTAINABLE. 4. They have NOT-BEEN CORRUPTED by risky-foorms of CONCENTRATIONS of: Wealth, Power, Influence, Ignorance, Luxuiries, Self-Righteousness, Arrogance, Biases, Prejudices, Winning Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception and/or by Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complexes. 5. They can integrate Reliable-Objective-Scientific-Information with Reflexive, Gracdious, Empatyhetic, Sympathetic and Sensitivfe Considerations in Coherent-Systems-Analyses of the Needs, Desires, Hopes and Creative-Potentials of ALL Members of God's Crew of God's Astronomicaqlly-Tiny-and-Isolated Spherical Space-Ship-Earth. 6. They focus primarily upon clearly-articulated and demonstrated AFFIRMATIONS OF Long-Term SUSTAINABLE: Life-Styles, Ideals, Principles, Values, Virtues, and Grounds-for-Hope - - - within Shalom's Sanctuaries for Open-and-Honest-Dialogues - - - about all of the above realities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be Graciously-Together in Shalom's-Sanctuaries! Be Graciously-Engaged in Open-and-Honest-Dialogues!